Hawk brings Falcon and Wiseacre to his election-night watch party
The livestream has passed a million views, with its opening exchanges mixing election anxiety, audio checks and early returns from Indiana.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 926,285 views a day, 29 times a normal first day on this channel (32,428).
Live on Election Night 📱- Complete Repudiation Of Trump and MAGA
Video summary
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- 10:00Falcon and Wiseacre appear on camera and work through audio and camera setup.
- 11:15The hosts discuss poll closing times, voting lines and their election-night anxiety.
- 13:05Hawk joins, with non-crunchy snacks prepared for the broadcast.
- 14:40The panel greets viewers watching from Munich, Korea and Argentina.
- 17:58Hawk reports early returns showing Victoria Spartz trailing J.D. Ford in Indiana.
- 19:40Shared television coverage brings updates from North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana.
Hawk had planned the snacks. "I endeavored to stock up on non-crunchy snacks," he tells Falcon and Wiseacre as they settle into their election-night livestream. Falcon reminds him who controls the mute button.
That small exchange sets the watch-party tone of a broadcast that has passed a million views. Its estimated first-day audience was roughly 29 times the channel's usual opening for longer videos, an unusually large turnout for Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk.
The opening is not all jokes. Before Hawk arrives, Falcon says, "I've had extreme high levels of anxiety all day." Wiseacre reminds people already in voting lines to stay there. The hosts greet viewers watching from Munich, Korea and Argentina, then turn to shared news coverage and election trackers.
One early result catches Hawk's attention: Republican Victoria Spartz trailing Democrat J.D. Ford in Indiana's fifth congressional district. That early deficit would become a defeat, with Ford winning the seat. Nationally, Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, the outcome Hawk characterizes in the livestream's title as a "Complete Repudiation Of Trump and MAGA."
His election coverage continued beyond the watch party. A separate commentary, "What Died Tonight?", also drew a much larger audience than his usual longer uploads. In it, Hawk argues that Democratic committee control could weaken White House loyalty by opening paths to testimony, and that campaigns targeting transgender people failed to answer voters' concerns about gas, groceries and utilities.
A Ukrainian-born Republican representing Indiana’s 5th congressional district in the U.S. House. She lost her 2026 reelection bid to Democratic state senator J. D. Ford.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic Indiana state senator who won election to the U.S. House in 2026, defeating Republican incumbent Victoria Spartz in Indiana’s 5th congressional district.
More on Wikipedia ›A U.S. House district covering several Indiana counties and much of Indianapolis’s northern suburbs. It is Indiana’s wealthiest congressional district by median income.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
- Subscribers
- 887,000 ▲ 7,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 26,864,937
- Channel views, pace per day
- 7,227,881 (on a normal day: 3,010,575)
- Video published
- November 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,061,559 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 816,142
The numbers
The election-night livestream drew an exceptionally large first-day audience for this channel. Hawk's separate post-election commentary also started well above his usual longer videos.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which newspaper's live election feed does Hawk share during the opening discussion?
Hawk shares a New York Times live feed as the panel follows the first poll closings.


